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Thomas Duda Jr.
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Frontiers Master's Program
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996-1999
University of Hawaii, 1993-1999 - Duda Lab
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1031 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 764-2358
- Fax: (734) 763-4080
- Email: tfduda@umich.edu
Fields of study
Evolutionary biology of molluscs
Academic background
Tom Duda received his BS from Texas A&M University at Galveston in 1988 and his MA from San Francisco State University in 1992. He began his PhD studies at the University of Hawaii in 1993 and ultimately received his PhD from Harvard University in 1999. From 1999-2002 he was a Tupper Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panamá and from 2002-2003 was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington. He currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and an Assistant Curator of Molluscs in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Since 2004 he has also maintained a formal scholarly affiliation with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute as a Research Associate.
Graduate students
Samantha Flowers, Alexandria Moore, Paula Teichholtz
Postdoctoral fellows
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Museum of Zoology
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